Nvidia has revealed their fifth generation Tegra-chip on CES 2014.
Nvidia has officially announced the Tegra K1 to be delivered in two versions: one with 32-bit ARM Cortex A15 design (four cores) with a 4-plus-1 CPU solution (to save battery) with a clock speed of 2.3 GHz.
Model number two is a 64-bit version (dual core Nvidia "Super Core") who goes by the Nvidia codename Denver, based on ARMv8 architecture, and with a better clock speed: 2.5 GHz. Both pieces have Kepler GPU.
The 64-bit model was actually showcased on a machine with android OS at the press conference.
The somewhat slower 32-bit version is expected in consumer products in the first half of this year, while the 64-bit version will be available on store shelves during the second half of 2014.
Meet Nvidia Tegra K1
There was talk of a big improvement and modification of the chip, that isn't called Tegra 5, but Tegra K1. Why K1? Because the chip is based on the Kepler architecture company bases its desktop video card on.
According to The Verge (and the video clips below), this means more or less that Nvidia can now deliver desktop-like graphics on mobile devices.
Although the graphics are amazing, The Verge also confirms that the platform and software aren't optimized for each other. Same rag points namely that the demos suddenly lost some fps, especially with Serious Sam 3.
Nvidia has not revealed what kind of factors that are required to run such graphics. On a 7 "tablet with at least 2 GHz CPU, there is no problem, but it might be worse on a 1.3 GHz mobile? We'll see during the year, everyone is certainly extremely positive about this.
